data, selects the national systems with records of the requested taxa, and send back the data, integrating the answers in an interactive map (fig. 1).
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Flow-chart of the SpatialDataInfrastructure of the NA2RE project, the New Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles of Europe, a system of

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decision-making. The entire system of geospatial data and technology has for some time been defined as spatialdatainfrastructures ( SDI ). From data collection to metadata, format integration, distributed computer interaction, software, storage, archiving, processing, analysis and communication (mapping

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spatial regulations. 26 The idea is alluring – one can click on a map on the screen, and get an overview of all spatial regulations applied to that spot or parcel. Other initiatives in the field of environmental law aim to create national spatialdatainfrastructures – also called sdi s – or e

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can now be integrated in ‘NA2RE’, the web-based spatialdatainfrastructure underpinning the new atlas (Sillero et al., 2014b; http://na2re.ismai.pt ).
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individuals might hold on parts of the underlying data. The goal is to establish a SpatialDataInfrastructure, a system of geographically distributed systems, where the original data remain on the servers controlled by national or regional herpetological societies, and through an online network it is